Ring-protector.



PATENTED OCT. 31, 1905.

A. DAVIDOFF. RING PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.-

Application filed June 21, 1905. Serial No. 266,226.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER DAvIDoFF. acitizen of the United States,residing in New York, in the borough of Brooklyn and State of New York.have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ring-Protectors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ring-protectors, and has among its objects toprovide a device for this purpose which effectually prevents the loss ofthe ring to which it is applied, causing said ring to be firmly seatedupon the finger.

A further object of the invention is to furnish a ring-protector whichnot only prevents the displacement of the ring from the finger, butprevents the turning of the same thereon, which is objectionable in sealand jeweled rings.

The invention also aims to provide a protector or guard which may beused in connection with rings of different sizes within cer tain limits.

The novel features of the invention will appear hereinafter and finallybe recited in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which corresponding parts are indicatedby like reference characters throughout, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a ring provided with the improved protector shown in position on thefinger. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective of the ring removed from thefinger. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. A is aperspective view of the protector or guard detached from the ring.

Referring to the drawings, a denotes my improved protector, which ismade of flexible spring metal, such as sheet-gold, German silver, orother springy material. Said protector comprises a straight relativelythin but wide link or shank 6/, provided with enlarged terminal heads,the faces of which are pierced to form eyes or apertures a preferably ofsemicircular shape in order to conform to the wall of the ring if thesame is of the crosssection shown in Fig. 3,said eyes being slightlylarger than the walls of the ring, however, so as to afford a certainamount of play. The extreme ends of the protector are slitted, as shownat x, the slits communicating with the eyes 64 By separating the saideyes a at their slitted portions the protector may be placed on the ringin the manner shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 that is to say, with its eyesfitting over the wall of the ring at approximately diametricallyopposite points and its shank extending approximately diametricallyacross the finger-opening from the side portions of the ring in case thelatter is of the type shown. Of course the protector or guard may beapplied to plain band-rings at any point.

When the ring is slipped over the finger, the shank a of the protectoris placed toward the palm of the hand and gives to acertain extenttoward the inner surface of the ring, as shown in Fig. l. The springaction of the protector is, however, exerted on the finger and forcesthe latter into close contact with the wall of the ring at a pointopposite said protector, as will be readily understood, and thusprevents the ring from being lost from the finger. The protector is madeof such size and possessed of the requisite amount of resiliency tofirmly but comfortably retain the ring on the finger and also preventthe turning of the former on the latter. When the ring is removed fromthe finger, the protector owing to its resiliency springs back to itsinitial or normal position, as shown in Fig. 2. The protector is readilydetachable from the ring and may be applied to rings of different sizeswithin certain limits.

The improved device not only has the advantage of efficiently performingits function in the manner described, but is of very simple form and canbe readily applied to and re moved from rings of any type.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A finger-ring having a normally straight guard-link extending diametrically across the finger-opening thereof andprovided with terminal eyes fitting over the same.

2. A finger-ring in combination with a protecting-link provided withterminal eyes fitting over said ring at approximately diamet ricallyopposite points.

3. A finger ring in combination with a guard-link having terminal eyesfitting over said ring, said link being slitted adjacent said eyes andextending across the finger-opening of said ring.

4. The combination, with a finger-ring, of a shank or link of springmetal enlarged at its ends and pierced through its face at said endswith eyes fitting over the ring at approximately opposite points, theportions of said link adjacent said eyes being slitted, as described.

5. The combination, with a finger-ring, of a guard link traversing thefingeropening thereof and provided with terminal eyes fitting over saidring, said eyes being of substantially 1 greater size than thecross-section of the ring I at the points which they engage.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALEXANDER DAVIDOFF.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, HENRY J. SUHRBIER.

